Carole, I have read your blog and looked at your pics and you seem to be having the time of your life! I was just reading some of it to my husband and telling him that I think you are the only person from high school that is actually DOING what they wanted to do. So happy for such a great gal! Keep writing, I will keep reading and if we are ever that way I will have you send me a list of “to do’s”. Take. care.

Denise, thanks for writing. I really am having fun — writing and editing a magazine for a living and also writing and taking pictures as a hobby. And traveling for both. Hope things are going well for you. Let me know if you’re ever in Iowa!

Carole! I write a blog called Iowa Sunshine Blog that I think you may enjoy but I also want to tell you about a small dive bar called Baxa’s Sutliff Store, If you can’t been before please stop down and see us! I am a part time waitress and I always like to hear from other bloggers and I think you would love to come have a drink, eat some good food and walk on the historic Sutliff bridge!

My mother-in-law bought your Maryville house; now my daughter and fiance live there. Glad to run across your blog and High Trestle Trail pics. Am an avid bicyclist on rails-to-trails. I’m a native Iowan still in love with Iowa but have lived in Missouri for 41 years and love it just as much! Love Missouri’s Katy Trail and the many wonderful rails-to-trails in Iowa.